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2024-11-16 · Short · Ali · recording, 1:29 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Tools, apps and tech · mode: Announcement and promotion · tags: His own products discussed, AI

In a Short, Ali says writer's block and the blank page made his book take three and a half years, and presents VoicePal, the AI ghostwriter app he built with friends, which asks follow-up questions and can be trained on your past writing to draft in your voice.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Writer's block, the blank page and talking ideas out loud

  • ★★ Ali says he has struggled with writer's block all his life and that his book took three and a half years to write mostly because he faced the blank page and could not get his ideas out. — 00:00:00 · Feel-Good Productivity (book)
  • ★★ Against writer's block, Ali says he has always found speaking his ideas out loud to a friend or team member sitting next to him incredibly helpful, letting him flesh them out before writing them up; the catch is that it needs a friend to talk them through with. — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — VoicePal, a ghostwriter in your pocket, and how it works

  • ★★ Ali says VoicePal can be trained on all your previous writing, so it gives a first draft that sounds pretty much like you within minutes rather than hours of typing. — 00:00:58

Threads in this video

  • restate · How do you get past writer's block? — Against writer's block, Ali says he has always found speaking his ideas out loud to a friend or team member sitting next to him incredibly helpful, letting him flesh them out before writing them up; the catch is that it needs a friend to talk them through with. (00:00:00)

Mentioned

Central: VoicePal

Also: Feel-Good Productivity (book) · ghostwriting

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